 He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with...  First Year English for High Schools - Стр. 196авторы: Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - Страниц: 207Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Milton Chase Potter, Harry Jewett Jeschke, Harry Orrin Gillet - 1917 - Страниц: 386
...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat on top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the top of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken... | |
 | William Dana Miller, Mrs. Margaret Wilhelmine Oberempt Palmer - 1918 - Страниц: 560
...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering behind him, one might have mistaken him for the spirit of famine descending upon earth, or some scarecrow... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - Страниц: 650
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served 5 for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, 1o with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - Страниц: 456
...shovels, and his whole frame was most loosely hung together. His head was small, 25 and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, which looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - Страниц: 618
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it 15 looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - Страниц: 520
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it i5 looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see... | |
 | William Louis Ettinger - 1922 - Страниц: 280
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow escaped from a cornfield. His schoolroom was a low building of one large room, rudely... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - Страниц: 136
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame tnost loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and Buttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - 1922 - Страниц: 360
...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have taken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield.... | |
 | George Pickett Wilson - 1922 - Страниц: 218
...Note his use of concrete words and ridiculous comparisons : ' ' His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his slender neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' ' The student who remarked that her teacher had "a... | |
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